Improvement in child s body-braces and supporters



'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LINDA SPIGELMYER, OF HARTLETON, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN C-HILDS BODY`BRACES AND SUPPORTERS.

Specification forming `partof Letters Patent-No. 101,934, dated April l2, 1870.

lb all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LINDA SPIGELMYER, of Hartleton, in the county of Union and State ot' Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Childs Body-Brace, Sac.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a clear and exact description thereof, sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a front view ofthe device, illusstrating my invention. Fig.2 is a View of the back thereof. Fig. 3 is a View from the back ofthe body in an extended position.

My invention is a new article of manufacture consisting of a body-brace, drawers, and skirt supporter, constructed and operating as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, A is the back of the body, provided with the gore B, extending from the top to near the bottom of the back of the body.

Cv() are elastic bands connecting the opposite sides of the gore, enabling the back A of the body to accommodate itself to the different positions ot' the wearer. D is a lacer passing through eyelet-holes on each side ofthe gore B to draw together the sides of the gore, and is intended to be used' to brace a person inclined to stoop or bend .the shoulders from a natural position.

E E are sleeves attached to the upper part of the back of the body A at one end,and provided with two sets, a a', of button-holes, which are buttoned on the sides of the front part of the body. rEhe two sets t to of button-holes are employed to adapt the sleeve to the arm of the wearer. The elastic pieces C. C, crossing the gore operated by the. lacer D, in connection with the sleeve, operate as a brace.

To the lower part ofthe back of the body A is attached a skirt-supporter, F, over which passes the band G of the skirt, fastened by means of buckles or otherwise to the front parts, H H, of the body. To the lower part ofthe back ot' the body A is attached the drawers-supporter I, provided with' buttons or other fastenings, to which the drawers are attached. H H are the front portions of the body, connected together by buttons or other fastenings in front and attached tothe back ofthe body bylaces, to accommodate the body to thesize ot' the wearer.

To the lower parts of the front pieces, H H, are attached by button or other fastenings the stockingsupporters I I, to the lower ends ot which are attached the elastic bands K K,

on the ends of which are buttons which enter body-brace and drawers and skirt supporters, the same consisting of back A, gore B, elastic bands (l, lacer D, sleeves E, skirt-supporter F, drawers-supporters I, and front portion, H, combined and operating substantially as and for the purpose described.

To the above I have signed my name this 26th day ot' January', 1870.

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, W. H. FINOKEL. 

